How to Use Obie in a Sentence

Obie

noun
  • Many of Obie’s other children are still without power across Georgia.
    — Melissa Noel, Essence, 2024-10-09
  • He was cast as the titular role in the latter and won an Obie Award in 1980 for his work.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 2023-05-31
  • Or many of the other roles in the diversified career of the Obie Award-winning actress.
    — Marc Berman, Forbes, 2024-10-15
  • This Obie Award-winning and Pulitzer finalist play is a laugh-out-loud farce about the complexities of race.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 2024-08-01
  • He’s surrounded by a nepo baby, a successful thriller writer, an Obie winner and plenty of talk about summer homes.
    — Karin Tanabe, Washington Post, 2023-04-18
  • Anyone who has seen the 68-year-old, six-time Obie Award winner perform live knows that both things can be simultaneously true.
    — airmail.news, 2025-01-11
  • In Obie Williams' home city of Augusta, 30 miles east of his daughter's home in Thomson, power lines stretched along the sidewalks, tree branches blocked the roads and utility poles lay cracked and broken.
    — CBS News, 2024-10-05
  • Directed by Tony Award nominee and Obie Award winner Anne Kauffman, the production marks Harrison’s Broadway debut.
    — Dave Quinn, People.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Is God Is, which premiered Off-Broadway in 2018 at the Soho Rep, won multiple Obie awards and quickly caught the attention of top movie producers, such as Thompson.
    — Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 8 Aug. 2025

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